The left and right, evolutionists, physicists, and most revolutionaries, all accept—at least on a historical scale—the nineteenth-century view of a unilinear and uniform "flow" of time.
Well, in this setup, the current has an additional – but identical – path to go through, so the overall resistance is half of what it was with a single-wire circuit.
The law had proved as futile as politics or religion, or any other single thread spun by the human spider; it offered no more continuity than architecture or coinage, and no more force of its own.